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I reinstalled Edgy on my T60 last week. However, on startup sometimes the progress bar does not get past a certain point, it stops at about a quarter the way through. Im thinking of putting 6.06 on it now. I have restarted about 6 times and its not booting. Anyone else have this problem?

Turbo Audi wrote:I reinstalled Edgy on my T60 last week. However, on startup sometimes the progress bar does not get past a certain point, it stops at about a quarter the way through. Im thinking of putting 6.06 on it now. I have restarted about 6 times and its not booting. Anyone else have this problem?

Do you know what it is trying to start when it stops? I believe that you can press Esc or something at boot to see what it is actually bringing up. Then I would use that to find out what is exactly hanging the system.

I have had Edgy running on my T60-2623-D6U for a month or so now and have no major problems. I do have some minor annoyances with it but they are small enough that I haven't bothered to try and fix them yet.

Have the same problem, although mine gets past that point after 30 seconds.

Spif wrote:Have the same problem, although mine gets past that point after 30 seconds.

If thats the case its possible that it may be waiting for the network interface to timeout. I've had that problem with other distros of Linux before where an interface keeps the entire system waiting until it finally times out waiting for a dhcp response that is not going to come.

What does it hang up on?

I disabled one of the CPU cores to see if that would help, and it did not. I read on ubuntu forums that disabling one core can fix it running weird. Eft is coded to run dual-core, but I just had no luck with it. I reinstalled Dapper running on one core and its great. Boots every time smoothly.

I got the similar problem when installing 6.06. I guess it's because of the graphic driver. There is no problem when I select safe graphic mode. After installation, the sound card doesn't work and ubuntu can't recognize V5250.

The sound issue on 6.0.6 is related to the order in which the sound modules are loaded at boot. I experienced the same issue, first tried to resolve, then just upgraded to 6.10. See thread: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261246

The issue was addressed in 6.10 Edgy, upgrading or re-installing should resolve.

I disabled one of the CPU cores to see if that would help, and it did not. I read on ubuntu forums that disabling one core can fix it running weird. Eft is coded to run dual-core, but I just had no luck with it. I reinstalled Dapper running on one core and its great. Boots every time smoothly.

I am not sure this is necessary. Every so often and certainly after a recent install the Ubuntu OS will run a scan/check against the created volumes. However this would not happen on every boot. I have had 6.10 running stable on a T60 for a couple months now with very little after-tweaking.

Hope this helps,

Paul